Ucbea of Saercumar
Culture
A City of Merchants
Saercumar was a city of trade, no more or less. The city began as a means to move goods, and that purpose and the infrastructure to support it more than scaled as the settlement has rapidly grew from a trading post to an emergent metropolis. Coin flowed from hand to hand and the Ucbea wholeheartedly encouraged this. Each and every trade carried a tax, but on a tranactional basis, those taxes were very low, making the benefits to merchants outweigh the costs.
Trade barges moved through the Docks District daily. Trade caravans paseds through the city on the Imperial Highway from faraway locales, often stopping to trade at the under the auspices and regulation of House Pela Drinum
Public Agenda
History
In 1374 LE, three members of the consortium ruling Saercumar, Catena Wamur̂ Badirum, were discovered, each independently engaging in some form of corrupt business or government practices, all within a week of each other. The noble houses whose business thrived in Saercumar banded together and created a municipal legislature, backed by a small army of mercenaries in their employ for the purpose. They ousted the remaining members of the consortium, taking control of the municipal government themselves. They petitioned the Catbalus of Calpi to endorse their legislature, which they called the Ucbea. The Catbalus, controlled as it was by the same noble houses, immediately assented to their request and the government of the settlement fell to rule by the aristocracy.
On 16 Besped, 1431 LE, Tola Eppova Qulia Ativia assaulted the city. She corralled the members of the Ucbea and personally executed each of them with her sorcery.
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